Dave Howorth - [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Kelsey Cummings wrote:
I just wanted to check to see if anyone using dirvish had already hacked
it to allow specification of multiple trees in a single config yet.
The method outlined in the url below is not so much and would be a real
issue to maintain over the number of systems that we plan on backing up
with dirvish.
http://www.dirvish.org/pipermail/dirvish/2006-April/000680.html
Off the top of my head, isn't the answer to this requirement:
I have a Filesystem like this:
/etc
1
2
3
3.1
/home
4
5
I would like to save 1, 3.1, 5.
An all in one vault.
something like this?:
tree: /
exclude:
+ /etc/1
+ /etc/3/3.1
+ /home/5
- /*
That doesn't look too difficult to maintain. What am I missing?
Cheers, Dave
That won't backup anything. Rsync works recursively, so it would exclude
all of /etc and /home without even checking for /etc/1 and the other
subdirectories. You need to specifically include /etc/, include /etc/1,
and so on, and exclude the rest of /etc with - /etc/* . So the proper
syntax would be:
tree: /
exclude:
+ /etc
+ /etc/1
+ /etc/3
+ /etc/3/3.1
- /etc/3/*
- /etc/*
+ /home
+ /home/5
- /home/*
- /*
Note that there must be a space between the + or - and the path. The
dashes are not necessary, they are assumed if neither is specified,
since it is an exclude list. I added them for clarity. I'm pretty sure
that you don't need trailing slashes on the include line, but you may
need to test that out. Also note that this is a more realistic solution
than just excluding 2 and 4. This exclude list makes sure to copy only
what you want, and nothing else, even if more directories are added to
/etc, /etc/3, or /home.
You must specifically include each directory in the path to the
directory to want to include, and then you must specifically exclude
everything else in each of those directories. So, if you want to include
the contents of /a/b/c/d/e/f and the contents of /z, you would need to use:
tree: /
exclude:
+ /a
+ /a/b
+ /a/b/c
+ /a/b/c/d
+ /a/b/c/d/e
- /a/b/c/d/*
- /a/b/c/*
- /a/b/*
- /a/*
+ /z
- /*
As far as ease of maintainability, it gets difficult if you need to
backup things that are "deep" in the filesystem, with a long path.
Otherwise, it's not too bad.
You should read the "INCLUDE/EXCLUDE PATTERN RULES" section in the rsync
man page to understand how it really works. See also
http://www.dirvish.org/pipermail/dirvish/2006-October/001050.html
Hope this helps,
Yoav Klein
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